Definition of "lodgment"
lodgment
noun
countable and uncountable, plural lodgments
An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged.
Quotations
If the surprisor and the surprisee are mutually astonished, then, indeed, there is a tangle out of which anything may emerge, for two explanations are necessary at the one moment, and two explanations can no more hold the same position in time than two bodies can occupy the same lodgment in space.
1914, James Stephens, chapter III, in The Demi-Gods, New York: Macmillan, published 1921, page 17
The act of lodging or depositing.
Quotations
A suggestive analogy becomes apparent between the first febrile period of the dromedary or straggling types, and the phenomena of lodgment of the virus in the spleen and bone marrow of monkeys after intravenous inoculation.
1917 April 21, George Draper, “Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 68, number 16, Chicago, Ill., page 1155